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Columbia University and IBM Establish New Center to Accelerate Innovation in Blockchain and Data Transparency

NEW YORK, July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Columbia University and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new Center devoted to research, education, and innovation in blockchain technology and data transparency. To advance compelling new ways to apply blockchain and help address growing demands around data transparency, the Center will also include an innovation accelerator to incubate business ideas from entrepreneurial students, faculty and members of the startup community. (more…)

How to fight side effects of hormone therapy for prostate cancer

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Men on hormone therapy for prostate cancer may benefit significantly from hitting the gym with fellow patients and choosing more veggies and fewer cheeseburgers, a new study suggests. (more…)

Nachtaktive Fische haben kleinere Gehirne

Ein internationales Forscherteam, darunter Wissenschaftler des Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrums, hat herausgefunden, dass nachtaktive Fische trotz ihrer größeren Augen kleinere Gehirnareale zur Verarbeitung visueller Reize haben als tagaktive Fische. Die Studie wirft ein neues Licht darauf, welchen Einfluss der Tag- und Nachtrhythmus auf die Evolution von Wirbeltiergehirnen hat und wurde kürzlich im „Journal of Evolutionary Biology“ veröffentlicht. (more…)

Earthquake Engineers Shift Focus to Ensure Structural Safety

UA researchers and collaborators have turned their attention to lateral force transfer, to design buildings that can better withstand seismic forces.

An award-winning team of researchers at the University of Arizona and partnering universities is working to develop buildings that will not collapse under the force of major earthquakes, such as last year’s 7.1-magnitude quake in central Mexico and 7.3-magnitude quake near the Iran-Iraq border. The two earthquakes were the deadliest of 2017, killing approximately 900 people combined, flattening hundreds of buildings and leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. (more…)

New Sustainable Production Method Could Advance Plastics and Pharmaceuticals

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale, as described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)

Erste historische Syphilis-Genome entziffert

Forscher bergen drei Genome des Bakteriums Treponema pallidum aus menschlichen Überresten der Kolonialzeit in Mexiko – Unterarten in Erreger der Syphilis und der Frambösie unterschieden

Ein internationales Forscherteam des Max-Planck-Instituts für Menschheitsgeschichte in Jena, der Universität Tübingen, der National School of Anthropology and History in Mexiko-Stadt sowie der Universität Zürich hat die bisher ältesten Genome des Bakteriums Treponema pallidum entdeckt, das Syphilis verursacht. Es wurde bisher nicht für möglich gehalten, das Bakterium aus alten Proben zu bergen. Der neue Fund eröffnet die Möglichkeit, die Herkunft und Evolution dieser wieder in Ausbreitung befindlichen Krankheit direkt zu untersuchen. (more…)

Students of innovation

At UD, engineering students are making next-generation consumer products

When a Maryland-based boat kit company wanted help designing a component that rowers sit in, they contacted a University of Delaware engineer with ideal expertise. Jenni Buckley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and a rower in the UD Athletics Hall of Fame, advises students in Senior Design, a one-semester capstone engineering design program. (more…)

Verge (XVG) needs a CEO, a paid one.

Even Wikipedia, the open source encyclopedia has a CEO.

Justin Vendetta is the lead Verge developer and in fact, till to-date the main ‘face of Verge’. (more…)